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Posts tagged with 'ncaa' at MetaFilter.Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:17:16 -0800Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:17:16 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Spencer Hall's Annual Mulling on College Footballhttp://www.metafilter.com/162027/Spencer%2DHalls%2DAnnual%2DMulling%2Don%2DCollege%2DFootball
<a href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2016/9/2/12726546/buffalo">Spencer Hall's Annual Mulling on College Football</a> On the eve of the true first Saturday of NCAA football, Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday publishes a <a href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2016/9/2/12726546/buffalo">slightly deeper essay</a> than the rest of the season's football japery. This year touches on Americanism, violence, race, and bison. Yeah, bison. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162027Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:17:16 -0800Abehammerb LincolnUConn Basketball Completes Four-Year Sweephttp://www.metafilter.com/158404/UConn%2DBasketball%2DCompletes%2DFour%2DYear%2DSweep
The University of Connecticut Huskies have won their <a href="http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/15143143/connecticut-huskies-cap-perfect-season-fourth-straight-title">fourth straight NCAA Division I women's basketball championship</a>, dominating Syracuse in the championship game 82-51. Power forward/center <a href="http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2016-04-06/uconn-womens-basketball-breanna-stewart-makes-case-shes">Breanna Stewart won the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four</a> for an unprecedented fourth time (she was also the first freshman to win it, and the first player to win it three times). Stewart had <a href="http://deadspin.com/breanna-stewart-is-a-woman-of-her-word-1769400490">promised two years ago</a> that she would bring four titles home to Storrs, and she delivered. Stewart will <a href="http://www.wnba.com/news/what-theyre-saying-about-wnba-draft-2016/">almost certainly be drafted</a> by the WNBA's <a href="http://storm.wnba.com/">Seattle Storm</a> and signed to a <a href="http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Sports/wnba-salaries.php">$95,000 rookie-maximum contract</a>. If she wins every individual player bonus and her team wins the WNBA Championship, she will make slightly more for the 2016 season than men's NBA superstar <a href="http://www.spotrac.com/nba/cleveland-cavaliers/lebron-james/">Lebron James makes for playing half of a game</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.158404Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:37:57 -0800EtriganMen's College Basketballhttp://www.metafilter.com/157614/Mens%2DCollege%2DBasketball
<a href="http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/feature/25503108/mason-men">George Mason. Cinderella.</a> Ten Years After. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.157614Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:54:14 -0800josher71I'm all about that golf cart, bosshttp://www.metafilter.com/157224/Im%2Dall%2Dabout%2Dthat%2Dgolf%2Dcart%2Dboss
ESPN's <a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14790286/remembering-marshawn-lynch-celebratory-injury-cart-ride-cal">oral history of Marshawn Lynch's post-game celebratory trip in the injury cart</a> after his Cal Bears knocked off the University of Washington Huskies in overtime. Get your Beast Mode fix:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cWjT9lpZc">E60: Marshawn Lynch</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwbXkFp25cI">
Best Lynch Interviews, Compiled</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foD3dkZR3fI">Beast Quake Run</a> (1:36 mark)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmelivYV5cc">Beast Quake 2</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUI54niIfl8">
Jay Smooth: Marshawn Lynch and the theater of disobedience</a>
<a href="http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-gameday/0ap3000000439544/Beast-Mode-opens-up">
Beast Mode Opens Up</a>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/marshawn-lynch-and-roger-goodell-compare-and-contrast/">Marshawn Lynch and Roger Goodell: Compare and Contrast</a>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/marshawn-lynch-doesnt-need-to-talk-to-anybody/384946/">Marshawn Lynch doesn't need to talk to anybody</a>
<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/536184/subversive-brillianceof-marshawn-lynch">
The subversive brilliance of Marshawn Lynch</a>
<a href="http://grantland.com/features/marshawn-lynch-beast-mode-evolved/">Beast Mode Evolved</a>
<a href="http://mmqb.si.com/2014/12/09/marshawn-lynch-seattle-seahawks-nfl">A Marshawn kind of way</a>
<a href="http://www.si.com/vault/2012/11/26/106258856/beauty-in-the-beast">Beauty in the Beast</a>
<a href="http://www.theonion.com/article/panicking-marshawn-lynch-unable-to-deactivate-beas-35147">
Panicking Marshawn Lynch Unable to Deactivate Beast Mode</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.157224Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:11:46 -0800MoonOrbSports Turkeys 2015http://www.metafilter.com/155039/Sports%2DTurkeys%2D2015
In honor of Thanksgiving, Sports Illustrated presents their <a href="http://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/photos/2015/11/25/2015-turkeys-year/1">2015 Turkeys of the Year</a> slideshow. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.155039Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:03:49 -0800The Gooch"That's the cost of doing business in this league."http://www.metafilter.com/154961/Thats%2Dthe%2Dcost%2Dof%2Ddoing%2Dbusiness%2Din%2Dthis%2Dleague
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/">Playing in the Red: College athletic departments are taking in more money than ever – and spending it just as fast</a> &mdash; a Washington Post report on how perennial NCAA powerhouses and aspiring contenders alike are using student fees to pay for exploding athletic department budgets. <blockquote>
Big-time college sports departments are making more money than ever before, thanks to skyrocketing television contracts, endorsement and licensing deals, and big-spending donors. But many departments also are losing more money than ever, as athletic directors choose to outspend rising income to compete in an arms race that is costing many of the nation's largest publicly funded universities and students millions of dollars. Rich departments such as Auburn have built lavish facilities, invented dozens of new administrative positions and bought new jets, while poorer departments such as Rutgers have taken millions in mandatory fees from students and siphoned money away from academic budgets to try to keep up.
[...]
"College sports is big business, and it's a very poorly run big business," said David Ridpath, a business professor at Ohio University and board member for the Drake Group, a nonprofit advocating for an overhaul of commercialized college sports.
"It's frustrating to see universities, especially public ones, pleading poverty . . . and it is morally wrong for schools bringing in millions extra on athletics to continue to charge students and academics to support programs that, with a little bit of fiscal sense, could turn profits or at least break even."
[...]
Some purchases, Benedict acknowledged, were optional, like two new twin-engine jets: a six-seat 2008 Cessna Citation CJ2+ ($6.4 million) and a seven-seat 2009 Cessna Citation CJ3 ($7.8 million), each bearing a blue and orange "AU" insignia on its tail.
The jets are used primarily by coaches to criss-cross the country meeting with recruits, contributing to Auburn's recruiting costs nearly doubling in a decade, from $1.6 million to $2.7 million.
"If you want to be in recruiting at this level, private planes are utilized," said Benedict, who pointed out most of Auburn's competitors also own jets.
</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.154961Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:30:24 -0800tonycpsuPay them their goddamn money.http://www.metafilter.com/152828/Pay%2Dthem%2Dtheir%2Dgoddamn%2Dmoney
<a href="http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/9/8/9249681/broke">Broke:</a> A moving essay about poverty, fairness, and college football. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152828Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:21:59 -0800rouftopBadgers!http://www.metafilter.com/148628/Badgers
In a monumental upset, <a href="http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-baskbl/archive/061213aab.html">the Wisconsin Badgers have won the NCAA men's basketball championship</a>. Here's <a href="http://archives.library.wisc.edu/uw-archives/exhibits/basketball/">more information and photos from the UW squad's magical season</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148628Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:42:01 -0800escabecheAnother Nail In The NCAA's Coffinhttp://www.metafilter.com/148299/Another%2DNail%2DIn%2DThe%2DNCAAs%2DCoffin
After years of fighting over keeping the records sealed, the NCAA has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ncaa-todd-mcnair-documents-released-20150324-story.html#page=1">finally released to the public their internal documents on the Reggie Bush investigation</a>, as part of the defamation lawsuit filed against the NCAA by former USC RB coach Todd McNair. The NCAA had argued that allowing the records to be unsealed would hinder future investigations, but such arguments were dismissed by the California courts, leading to the release. The documents paint a picture of an enforcement arm that was more Star Chamber than impartial adjudication body:
<em>"McNair should have all inferences negatively inferred against him," Roscoe Howard, a former U.S. attorney and nonvoting member of the committee, wrote in a March 2010 email. "Credibility determinations are for this committee and this committee alone. As with all tribunals or fact finders, we need not say why we disbelieve him, we need only let the public, or whomever, know that we disbelieve him."</em>
Though other members of the enforcement committee were concerned about the ramifications of the push:
<em>In the same email thread, infractions committee member Britton Banowsky seemed befuddled by the case against McNair.
"It is challenging for me to make the finding when there is no allegation that he personally was involved in any rules violations, or even had specific knowledge of any," Banowsky wrote.
Myers replied she wasn't comfortable with accusing McNair of lying to the infractions committee.
"As Britton says, on this record it is hard to find that he was 'involved' in anything," she wrote.</em>
Several committee members pointed to the hire of Lane Kiffin as head coach to be held against USC, with one comparing that to the hire by Miami of Paul Dee - the head of the infractions committee and an advocate of heavily punishing USC at the time, Dee would himself be mired in a recruiting scandal over his time in Miami a year later. Arguments were also put forth that Bush needed to be punished for his unwillingness to cooperate:
<em>"But ... it is inconceivable to me that an innocent person in Bush's situation with all that he has at stake, wouldn't come forward with the documents to prove his innocence," Uphoff wrote. "Accordingly, we should hold him accountable. ... Given the limited powers of the NCAA enforcement staff we emasculate them if we allow ex-athletes to refuse to cooperate and suffer no adverse inference from a failure to supply information under these circumstances."</em>
In addition, this release held back some of the most damaging of the records, including the emails that directly and savagely attacked McNair's character. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148299Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:14:38 -0800NoxAeternumLife as a 16 Seed in the NCAA Tourneyhttp://www.metafilter.com/148264/Life%2Das%2Da%2D16%2DSeed%2Din%2Dthe%2DNCAA%2DTourney
<a href="http://www.esquire.com/sports/a33830/ncaa-basketball-tournament-coastal-carolina-diary/?fb_ref=Default">16 Things You Learn About the NCAA Tournament While on the Road with a 16 Seed</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148264Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:30:50 -0800CODIf they don't allow this to happen, the players, it doesn't happen.http://www.metafilter.com/147767/If%2Dthey%2Ddont%2Dallow%2Dthis%2Dto%2Dhappen%2Dthe%2Dplayers%2Dit%2Ddoesnt%2Dhappen
<a href="http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/story/kentucky-wildcats-john-calipari-john-wall-eric-bledsoe-2009-10-oral-histrory-030915">An oral history of the 2009-10 Kentucky basketball season</a>. Before those guys, the narrative on "one-and-done" basketball players was almost always the same. The kids were selfish and egotistical, using college only as a place to pad their stats before inevitably departing for the NBA. They didn't care about their team or their school, or class at all; heck, the commonly held belief was that most kids stopped attending classes after the first semester (if they went at all). As it turned out, one-and-done players could come to a school, play hard, work as a team, go to class and win big. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147767Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:46:45 -0800T.D. StrangeDean Smith (1931-2015)http://www.metafilter.com/146859/Dean%2DSmith%2D1931%2D2015
<a href="http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209647792">Legendary former University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith</a> has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/sports/ncaabasketball/dean-smith-longtime-university-of-north-carolina-basketball-coach-dies-at-83.html?_r=0">died at the age of 83</a> (NYT obit). <a href="http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/02/08/dean-smith-death-83-north-carolina-coach">Sports Illustrated</a>: The son of Baptist schoolteachers, raised in the railroading town of Emporia, Kans., Smith played positions -- quarterback, point guard, catcher -- in high school that foreshadowed the career he would choose. In much the same way his major at Kansas, mathematics, prefigured the analytical approach he brought to North Carolina, which named him at 30 to succeed his boss, Frank McGuire.
<a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/08/5502033/former-unc-coach-dean-smith-died.html#.VNfXKPnF90w">Charlotte Observer</a>: It was Smith's players, however, who most appreciated who he was and what he did. "He's a father figure to a lot of players and a lot of people," former UNC star Michael Jordan said on the day Smith announced his retirement. "He's always been very genuine in his attitude toward the players. The education he tried to give to the players was more as a person and not so much as a basketball player, which I think has a lot more bearing and meaning to individuals."
<a href="http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12296176/dean-smith-former-north-carolina-tar-heels-coach-dies-age-83">ESPN.com</a>: Smith's Four Corners time-melting offense led to the creation of the shot clock to counter it. He was the first coach at North Carolina, and among the first in the segregated South, to offer a scholarship to a black athlete. The now-common "point to the passer," in which a scorer acknowledges a teammate's assist, started in Chapel Hill and became a hallmark of Smith's always humble "Carolina Way."
He was a direct coaching descendant of basketball's father, James Naismith, playing and later coaching at Kansas for the inventor of the game's most famous student, Jayhawks coach Phog Allen.
Smith would pass lessons learned in Kansas along at North Carolina, adding more than a few of his own. He tutored perhaps the game's greatest player, Jordan, who burst onto the national stage as a freshman on Smith's 1982 national title team, and two of basketball's most successful coaches, fellow Hall of Famers Larry Brown and Williams.
<a href="http://time.com/3700107/dean-smith-north-carolina/">Time</a>: His players could have compiled more impressive individual statistics at other schools. But college is supposed to prepare you for the real world. No players were more prepped for the NBA than Smith's. "He taught you everything — shooting, passing, positional defense," says former North Carolina star Mike O'Koren, who spend eights seasons in the NBA from 1980-1988. "He never limited what he would teach you because of your size or anything." O'Koren remembers getting the ball on a fast break during his freshman season, and hitting an open jump shot. A few possessions later, he took a similar shot — and missed with the defense in his face. The horn blared, and O'Koren was out of the game. "I don't know about that shot Mike," Smith said to O'Koren, now an assistant at Rutgers. "Coach, I was feeling it," O'Koren replied. Smith: "Well, why don't you go feel the bench now."
<a href="http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25062799/uncs-dean-smith-mightve-really-been-a-better-man-than-coach">CBSSports.com</a>: Furthermore, Smith protested, among other things, the Vietnam War, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the death penalty. In 1998, according to a story in the University Gazette, Smith appeared at a clemency hearing for a death-row inmate and told then-Governor Jim Hunt, right to his face, "You're a murderer. The death penalty makes all of us murders."
In other words, yes, Dean Smith was a basketball coach. But he wasn't just a basketball coach. He's a man who touched the life of the greatest basketball player to ever live ... and also millions of other lives in countless and crucial ways. He never settled for a whistle and a ball, never stayed in his so-called lane, never stopped trying to make things better until a cruel disease robbed him of his mind.
Also:
<a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10545949/precious-memories-dean-smith-story">Precious Memories</a>: Dementia has taken its toll on former North Carolina coach Dean Smith, but family and devoted friends stand by the beloved coach. [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/137258/Coach-Dean-Smiths-Last-Fight">previously</a>]
1982 NCAA Final--<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTX5rD0lNeY">Michael Jordan's gamewinner</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146859Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:05:24 -0800MoonOrbThe best team wonhttp://www.metafilter.com/146069/The%2Dbest%2Dteam%2Dwon
"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Nibert">Gregg Nibert</a> had something he needed to discuss.<br>
The Presbyterian College head basketball coach had just seen his team lose its season opener to Duke, 113–44. "We're not 69 points worse," Nibert would say in his post-game press conference. No one in the room cared. Nibert wasn't the story, nor were his Blue Hose players.<br><br>
"We're never gonna forget this night," Nibert said. He repeated it. Then he collected his box score and walked out the door. But then Nibert stopped. He had to speak for those without a voice." -- From The Cauldron, <a href="https://medium.com/the-cauldron/open-house-100e414fac0e">a story of a NCAA Basketball Coach who has cared for 37 foster children, and his ongoing attempts to get the sports media to care about the issue more than sports</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146069Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:22:20 -0800Potomac AvenueRevenge of the nerds, on three. Break!http://www.metafilter.com/144388/Revenge%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dnerds%2Don%2Dthree%2DBreak
"MIT's students, faculty, and alumni won 80 Nobel Prizes between 1944 and 2013. In that time, MIT football won a total of 80 games." Until this year. <a href="http://on.wsj.com/1tA7o06">This season's MIT football team is undefeated, 8-0.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144388Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:11:20 -0800mark7570The Kids At Duke Are Going To Love Thishttp://www.metafilter.com/143837/The%2DKids%2DAt%2DDuke%2DAre%2DGoing%2DTo%2DLove%2DThis
Over a period of 18 years, 3100 students at The University of North Carolina were afforded the opportunity to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/sports/university-of-north-carolina-investigation-reveals-shadow-curriculum-to-help-athletes.html">pad their GPA by taking classes that had no actual requirements, and never even met.</a> Over 1/2 the students were athletes, who without the help presumably would not have stayed eligible to <strike>compete</strike> make money for the University. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143837Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:56:20 -0800CODYour College Football Team Suckshttp://www.metafilter.com/143297/Your%2DCollege%2DFootball%2DTeam%2DSucks
The NYT, following up previous maps examining the relationship between geography and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html">baseball</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/12/upshot/12-upshot-nba-basketball.html">basketball</a> fandom, has released a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-fan-map.html">college football fandom map</a>. Like the previous maps, it's based on Facebook Likes and zip code data, so its accuracy may be a little suspect. But it's still fun, especially when it supports your preconceived opinion of a rival school!
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/138575/The-New-York-Yankees-were-removed-to-make-this-map-possible">We discussed the baseball map previously</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143297Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:05:39 -0800CODIn other football newshttp://www.metafilter.com/142577/In%2Dother%2Dfootball%2Dnews
Two years after former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/118175/Call-no-man-happy-till-he-is-dead">previously</a>), <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2014/09/08/ncaa-restores-penn-states-football-scholarships-postseason-eligibility/15293041/">the NCAA has lifted all remaining sanctions against Penn State</a> and reinstated postseason eligilibity effective immediately, and a full roster of football scholarships starting in the 2015-2016 year. The NCAA decision came as a result of former <a href="http://www.dlapiper.com/~/media/Files/Insights/Publications/2014/09/NCAAMonitorsSecondAnnualReport.pdf">Senator George Mitchell's oversight report (PDF)</a> proclaiming "significant progress toward ensuring its athletics department functions with integrity" after the Sandusky case. The report was Mitchell's second annual review of Penn State's compliance with the Athletics Integrity Agreement established in 2012, a period originally scheduled to last for 4 years. Also according to the NCAA statement, Mitchell's oversight may also conclude "substantially earlier" than 2017, the date set forth in the original agreement between the NCAA and Penn State.
"Penn State has made remarkable progress over the past year," said Harris Pastides, University of South Carolina president and a NCAA board member. "The board members and I believe the Executive Committee's decision is the right one. It allows both the university and the association to continue to move toward a common goal of ensuring that educating, nurturing and protecting young people is a top priority." tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142577Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:31:09 -08002bucksplusNLRB Says College Football Players Can Unionizehttp://www.metafilter.com/137804/NLRB%2DSays%2DCollege%2DFootball%2DPlayers%2DCan%2DUnionize
The NLRB <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/sports/ncaafootball/national-labor-relations-board-rules-northwestern-players-are-employees-and-can-unionize.html">has ruled</a> that football players at Northwestern University are college employees and can form a union. Some <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/nlrb-says-college-athletes-can-unionize-032614">commentary</a> from Charles Pierce. <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/136099">Previously</a> here at MeFi. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137804Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:10:48 -0800AizkolariThe key word is "publicly"...http://www.metafilter.com/136494/The%2Dkey%2Dword%2Dis%2Dpublicly
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/sports/michael-sam-college-football-star-says-he-is-gay-ahead-of-nfl-draft.html?ref=sports&amp;_r=1">Michael Sam blazes a trail. </a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sam">Michael Sam</a>, <a href="http://www.mutigers.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/michael_sam_452639.html">University of Missouri star football player</a>, <a href="http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/sec-dpoy.html">Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year</a> and prospective <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/players/1700418/michael-sam">draft pick</a> in this spring's 2014 NFL draft, may become the first publicly <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/sports/michael-sam-college-football-star-says-he-is-gay-ahead-of-nfl-draft.html?ref=sports&_r=1">gay player in the NFL</a>. The draft starts on May 8th, 2014 and continues through May 10th. Sam announced his sexuality in a Missouri team meeting last year. The Tigers went on to have an above expectations year, going 12-2 and winning the Cotton Bowl with Sam concluding the best year of his career in his senior season. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136494Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:52:49 -0800roquetuen"This is about finally giving college athletes a seat at the table."http://www.metafilter.com/136099/This%2Dis%2Dabout%2Dfinally%2Dgiving%2Dcollege%2Dathletes%2Da%2Dseat%2Dat%2Dthe%2Dtable
<a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10363430/outside-lines-northwestern-wildcats-football-players-trying-join-labor-union">Northwestern Football Players Are Trying To Unionize</a>. More coverage from <a href="http://deadspin.com/northwestern-football-players-are-trying-to-unionize-1510639551">Deadspin</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/01/28/3214431/northwestern-university-football-players-file-petition-unionize/">ThinkProgress</a>, and <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1939344-northwestern-football-players-reportedly-looking-to-join-labor-union">Bleacher Report</a>. <a href="http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/press-releases/ncaa-responds-union-proposal">The NCAA's predictable response</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136099Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:12:15 -0800tonycpsuCommie American Footballhttp://www.metafilter.com/131799/Commie%2DAmerican%2DFootball
<a href="http://www.commiefootball.com/manifesto/"><strong>Manifesto</strong>: People's Union of American College Football: Make American Football Strong Like Bull, Smart Like Tractor.</a> Under former capitalist system, American college football very unfair. Only few teams is climbing to top of heap, and is making all the money, especially more dollars on the television contract. Best, powerful teams is playing cupcake opponent, then flying across country to form conference alliance with faraway team, while also ignoring strong opponent right over next hill. <a href="http://www.commiefootball.com/">People's Union of American College Football</a> is creating much better system. Each team is playing best quality opponents throughout season. Each team is being organized by geography, and must fight way out of home District to qualify for national playoff. Champion is last team standing, and is TRUE champion over all other teams in whole country. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131799Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:51:34 -0800(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) OatesAmerica's Dog. 3/24/2004-8/31/2013http://www.metafilter.com/131618/Americas%2DDog%2D3%2D24%2D2004%2D8%2D31%2D2013
<a href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20130903/SPORTS0605/309030056/Popular-Butler-mascot-Blue-II-has-died-age-9">Blue II,</a> the beloved mascot for <a href="http://www.butler.edu/">Butler University</a>, died of <a href="http://www.kateconnick.com/library/cushingsdisease.html">Cushing's Syndrome</a> on Saturday. After his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yh2c66B4DY">show-stopping appearance on the court</a> during March Madness 2008, Blue maintained a high profile on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/butlerblue2/">various</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ButlerBlue2">social</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/butlerblue2">platforms</a>. His <a href="http://www.bulldogsworld.com/f/general-bulldog-forum/butler-blues-webcam-back">webcam</a> was one of the most popular sites visited at Butler. He is survived by his owners, the Kaltenmarks, and by his protege, <a href="https://twitter.com/ButlerBlue3">Trip</a>.
<a href="http://blogs.butler.edu/butler-blue/2013/09/03/i-leave-you-with-thanks/">Blue II's last words</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131618Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:15:24 -0800pxe2000Car Washing = NCAA Violation? Asking Who Texted You Too?http://www.metafilter.com/128549/Car%2DWashing%2DNCAA%2DViolation%2DAsking%2DWho%2DTexted%2DYou%2DToo
An unnamed West Coast Conference school has a golfer who received extra benefits. <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/believe-not-washing-car-university-water-ncaa-violation-201607788.html">Washing her car</a> with a hose <a href="http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golftalkcentral/college-golfer-receives-ncaa-violation-for-car-wash/">not available to all students</a>. And on Wednesday we learned from Portland basketball coach Eric Reveno that a WCC coach committed a violation by texting a recruit. The message? "<a href="http://nesn.com/2013/05/ncaa-fined-student-athlete-for-using-hose-water-on-campus-to-wash-car/">Who is this</a>?" tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128549Thu, 30 May 2013 10:46:30 -0800theichibunMetropolitan-Statistical Madnesshttp://www.metafilter.com/126665/MetropolitanStatistical%2DMadness
Which of these two cities is bigger? The Census bureau has a quiz to see how well you know the relative sizes of the 64 largest metropolitan areas in the US, <a href="http://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/057/">March Madness style</a>. <a href="http://www.census.gov/dataviz/">More data visualizations from the Census bureau</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126665Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:09:11 -0800schmodCommonwealth of Pennsylvania v. National Collegiate Athletic Associationhttp://www.metafilter.com/123412/Commonwealth%2Dof%2DPennsylvania%2Dv%2DNational%2DCollegiate%2DAthletic%2DAssociation
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett filed a <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/ncaa_lawsuit.html">federal anti-trust lawsuit</a> against the National Collegiate Athletic Association today. Announcing the suit at a press conference this morning, Corbett claimed that the NCAA <a href="http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2013/1/2/3827676/pennsylvania-anti-trust-lawsuit-ncaa-corbett-emmert-sanctions">"seized upon the opportunity for publicity on the backs of the citizens of the Commonwealth"</a>. The suit seeks vacation of all of the sanctions levied against Penn State University by the NCAA (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/118175/Call-no-man-happy-till-he-is-dead">previously</a>) after the release of the Freeh Report (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/117815/Report-finds-Penn-State-president-Paterno-concealed-facts-about-Sandusky-sex-abuse">previously</a>) on the University's improper handling of allegations of sexual abuse against Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/109172/Sandusky-Charged">previously</a>). Responding to the lawsuit, the NCAA called the lawsuit <a href="http://onwardstate.com/2013/01/02/ncaa-issues-statement-in-response-to-corbett-lawsuit/">"an affront to all of the victims in this tragedy"</a>. Corbett, who has <a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7770996/in-wake-joe-paterno-death-sandusky-sex-abuse-scandal-power-struggle-spread-penn-state-state-capital">faced criticism</a> for his slow-moving but ultimately successful investigation of the abuse and his <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/12/gov_tom_corbetts_team_defends.html">close ties to Sandusky's Second Mile charity</a>, is pursuing the case on behalf of the citizens of the Commonwealth rather than the University, which <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/penn_state_distances_itself_fr.html">has stated</a> that it is "committed to full compliance" with the sanctions, and is not a party to the lawsuit. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.123412Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:55:40 -0800tonycpsu